Pelosi: GOP to blame for partisanship

7:52 PM,
Jul. 30, 2013

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks to the USA TODAY Editorial Board.

Written by

Susan Davis
USA TODAY

Americans have historically low views of Congress, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says Republicans have fueled that disgust for political reasons and Democrats can win elections by highlighting GOP obstructionism.

"Nothing deters voting more than confusion, 'a pox on both your houses,' and that confusion is one of the successes of the Republican Party, to make it look equivalent in terms of who is holding up jobs. It's not equivalent, and we have to make that clear to the American people," Pelosi said Tuesday at a roundtable with USA TODAY editors and reporters.